In This Issue:
- Your Upper Body, Your Yoga – the book is now available to order
- The Scapulohumeral Rhythm — or why it is okay to move your shoulders
- Attend a weekly online Yin Yoga class with Bernie
- The next 50-hour Online Yin Yoga Teacher Training with Bernie and Diana runs March 28- April 3, 2022
- Discounts for online courses
- What’s new in the Forum?
- The Yin Yoga Teacher Directory
Your Upper Body, Your Yoga
Including Asymmetries and Proportions
Your Upper Body, Your Yoga is Bernie Clark’s highly anticipated final book of the Your Body, Your Yoga trilogy — the definitive investigation of how your uniqueness affects your movements, postures and your yoga.
This remarkable trilogy looks at the variations of human anatomy and its effect on the body’s biomechanics. Used as a standard text for many yoga teacher training programs it provides yoga students and teachers a system for exploring what asanas are possible and sensible and which postures should best be left alone.
This third book in the series looks at the upper body: the shoulder complex, arms and hands. But, there is more. This final book also includes explorations of how asymmetries and proportions affect our practice. Learn more about the book
(The following is an excerpt from Your Upper Body, Your Yoga)
Have you ever heard a yoga teacher tell students with arms overhead to “draw your shoulder blades back and down”? This is not always the right instructions, and indeed rarely is the best thing for a student to do. The shoulder complex consists of three bones and four joints. Movement at one joint causes and affects movement at the other joints. They are connected and coordinated. The most important coordination is called the scapulohumeral rhythm
Attend a Weekly Online Class with Bernie Clark
Welcome to the Yin-side!
Every Sunday morning at 10 am PST (Vancouver time zone), join Bernie for a live 70-minute Yin Yoga class followed by an optional 20-minute meditation practice. Or, if this time or day does not work for you, you can take the class at your preferred time by watching the video reply. In fact regardless of when you choose to attend, you can take the class as many times as you like, until the next class becomes live. (The class costs $4US.) Each class will include
- 3~5 minutes of centring/arriving
- 55 minutes of yin asanas
- 8~10 minutes of Shavasana
- An optional 20 minutes of guided mindfulness meditation
- A suggested Spotify Playlist Register for the next class
The March 2022 training is now open for registration. There will only be two trainings in 2022: this one in the spring and another in the fall. If you have been considering joining us, here is your chance!
“This training was really amazing! I had to admit I was skeptical about a virtual course, but I was so wonderfully surprised by how human it felt!! Thanks to Bernie Clark, Diana Batts, Nathalie Keiller, and everyone that created such a comfortable and curious learning space. I’ve never felt more supported as a teacher.” – Autumn, Yoga Teacher
Bernie together with Yoga International offers 8 one-hour, online, Yin Yoga for Your Body video classes. These hours are eligible for continuing education credits with Yoga Alliance.
Through these 8 on-line yin yoga classes you will learn
- The nature of yin and yang
- To practice with intention and attention
- The 3 principles of the yin yoga
- The reality of human variations
- To create a functional yoga practice
- To develop anti-fragility
- To develop mindfulness
Your Spine, Your Body – The Course
by Professor Stuart McGill and Bernie Clark
Up-to-Date Knowledge and Practices to Increase Spinal Stability, Mobility, Endurance, and Well-Being
Professor Stuart McGill is a world-renowned expert in spine biomechanics. In this eight-hour course, Stuart and Bernie will lead you to discover:
- The code—the science of the spine
- The art—applying the science to your body
- Practices—taking it to the mat
The Yin Yoga Forum
Recent Forum Discussions: If you have something to contribute to these topics, feel free to add your voice and experience to the discussions!
Yin Yoga Teacher Directory
If you are having trouble finding a Yin Yoga teacher near you, or if you are traveling to somewhere new, try checking out the Directory of Yin Yoga teachers. We have hundreds of teachers registered from all over the world. If you are a teacher and are not in the directory, just send us your information and we’ll be happy to add you.
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